Phebe is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Phoebe, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Phebe: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 22 in 2025. Its best rank was #357 in 1882.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #357 in 1882; #5,669 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Phebe in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,669 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1882, at #357.
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Phebe: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 22 girls in 2025. Peak: #357 in 1882 · most girls in one year: 45 (2011).
In 2025, 22 US girls were named Phebe, making it the 5,669th most common girls’ name of the year, up 81 places from #5,750 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 22 girls named Phebe in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #357, reached in 1882. The most girls given the name in a single year was 45, in 2011. For comparison, it was #4,827 in 2015 and #3,017 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Phebe in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 15 babies with the name. In all, 2,958 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 348 babies named Phebe.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 293 US girls were named Phebe; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 37. In 2025 that was about 1 in 73,058 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Phoebe (43,663 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Phebe in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #5,669 | — | — |
| 2024 | 22 | #5,750 | — | — |
| 2023 | 34 | #4,260 | — | — |
| 2022 | 28 | #4,878 | — | — |
| 2021 | 25 | #5,206 | — | — |
| 2020 | 30 | #4,522 | — | — |
| 2019 | 34 | #4,243 | — | — |
| 2018 | 37 | #3,988 | — | — |
| 2017 | 29 | #4,783 | — | — |
| 2016 | 32 | #4,501 | — | — |
| 2015 | 29 | #4,827 | — | — |
| 2014 | 37 | #4,086 | — | — |
| 2013 | 37 | #4,066 | — | — |
| 2012 | 33 | #4,462 | — | — |
| 2011 | 45 | #3,541 | — | — |
| 2010 | 35 | #4,279 | — | — |
| 2009 | 41 | #3,850 | — | — |
| 2008 | 33 | #4,619 | — | — |
| 2007 | 27 | #5,349 | — | — |
| 2006 | 36 | #4,140 | — | — |
| 2005 | 41 | #3,633 | — | — |
| 2004 | 39 | #3,732 | — | — |
| 2003 | 34 | #4,015 | — | — |
| 2002 | 29 | #4,359 | — | — |
| 2001 | 22 | #5,328 | — | — |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,271 | — | — |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,164 | — | — |
| 1998 | 21 | #5,083 | — | — |
| 1997 | 21 | #4,963 | — | — |
| 1996 | 23 | #4,544 | — | — |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,883 | — | — |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,615 | — | — |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,918 | — | — |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,927 | — | — |
| 1991 | 15 | #6,173 | — | — |
| 1990 | 15 | #6,053 | — | — |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,315 | — | — |
| 1988 | 13 | #6,159 | — | — |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,533 | — | — |
| 1986 | 17 | #4,675 | — | — |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,276 | — | — |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,637 | — | — |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,104 | — | — |
| 1982 | 19 | #4,131 | — | — |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,167 | — | — |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,680 | — | — |
| 1979 | 14 | #5,017 | — | — |
| 1978 | 20 | #3,729 | — | — |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,851 | — | — |
| 1976 | 16 | #4,104 | — | — |
| 1975 | 16 | #4,083 | — | — |
| 1974 | 23 | #3,067 | — | — |
| 1973 | 20 | #3,310 | — | — |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,716 | — | — |
| 1971 | 11 | #5,034 | — | — |
| 1970 | 21 | #3,177 | — | — |
| 1969 | 26 | #2,627 | — | — |
| 1968 | 18 | #3,133 | — | — |
| 1967 | 11 | #4,229 | — | — |
| 1966 | 15 | #3,364 | — | — |
| 1965 | 12 | #3,893 | — | — |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,568 | — | — |
| 1963 | 13 | #3,757 | — | — |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,204 | — | — |
| 1961 | 22 | #2,657 | — | — |
| 1960 | 13 | #3,641 | — | — |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,384 | — | — |
| 1958 | 12 | #3,691 | — | — |
| 1957 | 15 | #3,118 | — | — |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,732 | — | — |
| 1955 | 13 | #3,337 | — | — |
| 1954 | 18 | #2,675 | — | — |
| 1953 | 13 | #3,231 | — | — |
| 1952 | 13 | #3,160 | — | — |
| 1951 | 13 | #3,068 | — | — |
| 1950 | 13 | #3,017 | — | — |
| 1949 | 17 | #2,491 | — | — |
| 1948 | 19 | #2,314 | — | — |
| 1947 | 21 | #2,183 | — | — |
| 1946 | 15 | #2,573 | — | — |
| 1945 | 13 | #2,569 | — | — |
| 1944 | 28 | #1,569 | — | — |
| 1943 | 24 | #1,783 | — | — |
| 1942 | 16 | #2,290 | — | — |
| 1941 | 22 | #1,737 | — | — |
| 1940 | 14 | #2,278 | — | — |
| 1939 | 16 | #2,107 | — | — |
| 1938 | 18 | #1,929 | — | — |
| 1937 | 13 | #2,425 | — | — |
| 1936 | 18 | #1,857 | — | — |
| 1935 | 19 | #1,829 | — | — |
| 1934 | 17 | #1,981 | — | — |
| 1933 | 22 | #1,649 | — | — |
| 1932 | 21 | #1,738 | — | — |
| 1931 | 20 | #1,789 | — | — |
| 1930 | 27 | #1,524 | — | — |
| 1929 | 14 | #2,403 | — | — |
| 1928 | 22 | #1,823 | — | — |
| 1927 | 23 | #1,812 | — | — |
| 1926 | 15 | #2,447 | — | — |
| 1925 | 30 | #1,531 | — | — |
| 1924 | 33 | #1,468 | — | — |
| 1923 | 23 | #1,822 | — | — |
| 1922 | 18 | #2,174 | — | — |
| 1921 | 33 | #1,432 | — | — |
| 1920 | 27 | #1,620 | — | — |
| 1919 | 28 | #1,521 | — | — |
| 1918 | 34 | #1,324 | — | — |
| 1917 | 35 | #1,236 | — | — |
| 1916 | 30 | #1,354 | — | — |
| 1915 | 23 | #1,563 | — | — |
| 1914 | 25 | #1,253 | — | — |
| 1913 | 22 | #1,218 | — | — |
| 1912 | 19 | #1,244 | — | — |
| 1911 | 18 | #1,063 | — | — |
| 1910 | 10 | #1,603 | — | — |
| 1909 | 8 | #1,728 | — | — |
| 1908 | 10 | #1,418 | — | — |
| 1907 | 15 | #1,028 | — | — |
| 1906 | 10 | #1,299 | — | — |
| 1905 | 10 | #1,286 | — | — |
| 1904 | 13 | #1,041 | — | — |
| 1903 | 11 | #1,123 | — | — |
| 1902 | 15 | #930 | — | — |
| 1901 | 13 | #957 | — | — |
| 1900 | 22 | #795 | — | — |
| 1899 | 12 | #970 | — | — |
| 1898 | 15 | #910 | — | — |
| 1897 | 18 | #756 | — | — |
| 1896 | 19 | #747 | — | — |
| 1895 | 22 | #679 | — | — |
| 1894 | 8 | #1,216 | — | — |
| 1893 | 21 | #642 | — | — |
| 1892 | 22 | #612 | — | — |
| 1891 | 24 | #537 | — | — |
| 1890 | 20 | #596 | — | — |
| 1889 | 30 | #450 | — | — |
| 1888 | 17 | #627 | — | — |
| 1887 | 20 | #508 | — | — |
| 1886 | 19 | #524 | — | — |
| 1885 | 32 | #361 | — | — |
| 1884 | 10 | #719 | — | — |
| 1883 | 13 | #557 | — | — |
| 1882 | 25 | #357 | — | — |
| 1881 | 20 | #381 | — | — |
| 1880 | 15 | #447 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).